Police Reform and the Dismantling of Legal Estrangement

In police reform circles, many scholars and policymakers diagnose the frayed relationship between police forces and the communities they serve as a problem of illegitimacy, or the idea that people lack confidence in the police and thus are unlikely to comply or cooperate with them. The core proposal...

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Autor principal: Bell, Monica C (Autor)
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Publicado: 2017
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